Principal Distributed Systems Engineer (Go / Rust) at Chronosphere Cloud

Job Description

Chronosphere Cloud is hiring a Principal Distributed Systems Engineer to architect our next-generation metric ingestion and storage tier handling over forty million active time-series per second across multi-region clusters.

Core Engineering Responsibilities You will design lock-free ring buffers in Rust, optimize Raft consensus state machines in Go, and tune NVMe compaction schedules for sub-second PromQL query execution. Collaborating directly with our storage kernel group, you will reduce cross-zone network egress costs while guaranteeing zero data loss during regional availability zone failovers.

Candidate Qualifications Eight or more years building high-throughput distributed storage engines, message brokers, or database internals in Go or Rust. Deep familiarity with Linux io_uring, epoll networking, memory-mapped files, and write-ahead log recovery protocols. Production experience operating stateful workloads on Kubernetes across AWS nitro instances.